Core 1 Week 4 days 5 and Core P 4/5 week 1 day 5.

We finished up week 1 of Core P 4/5 today. I'm going to have to work on some pictures. I'm not adding in a whole lot this time around for my two little ones. Well, not a whole lot, if you don't count the Abeka K4 videos with all the workbooks. Yeah, I tend to oversupplement, and I'm usually the first to admit it.

But, overall the day went well. We started working on next week's memory verse, since it is a longer one. They also are learning the Abeka Bible verses, so I'm not too worried. They both follow along pretty well. My little boy, however, keeps asking "are we done yet, so I can go play?" But he loves stories.

My oldest two finished up Core 1 week 4 days 3, 4, and 5 today. We were behind. Again. Somehow life just keeps getting in the way.

We didn't finish everything. For example, we skipped Akebu to Zapotec for the week. I don't know why, we just somehow missed it. With all my extra resources. We've been reading an Atlas-type book, called the DK Picturepedia Atlas of the World. We're reviewing one two page spread a day, so it's pretty nice. Lots of geography review. It's nice, because we'll be reading, and then within a couple days, in some other resource, we'll find another place that refers to what we are just reading.

We're also adding in the final What Lives in the . . . . series by Oona Gaarder-Juntti. I double-checked the spelling on her name. We use it as a guessing game book. They really are easy readers, but it's more fun to guess. There's one animal per two page spread. I cover the name of the animals, and all the info. They look at the picture and guess the name of the animal. Then I have them guess the class and then the location. Some of them have fairly easy locations. For example, the What Lives in Antarctica book features only animals that live in, yep, you guessed it, Antarctica.

But, each book tells the name, class, and location, and just a few details in easy reader format for about 10 animals.

A third fun book is called Animal Senses: How Animals See, Hear, Taste, Smell, and Feel by Pamela Hickman. It's fun, because it has simple "experiments" children can easily do for each sense. Very simple, but fun.

Also, Libraries by Lucia Raatma is another good book. It's an easy reader type book but with lots of big words. I particularly like the How Libraries started chapter about early writing materials and clay tablets in Mesopotamia and how papyrus was made, and Hadrian's Library in Greece.

We're also done with Charlotte's Web and adding in Trumpet of the Swan. We're on about chapter 7 out of 21, but I think we start a new book next week, so I'm just going to keep reading a little bit out of each chapter.